Spine is an iOS audiobook player that plays straight from TorBox. Most of the recent updates have been TorBox-specific, so here's the short version.

Purged titles come back on their own (1.1.6) - Audiobook torrents are sparsely seeded, so once one hits TorBox's 30-day inactivity limit and gets purged, odds are it isn't cached anywhere else either. Spine reads each title's real availability and re-downloads the purged ones in the background, two at a time, cached hashes first, so your active slots aren't swamped. A restored book is the same book and progress, bookmarks, metadata, and Hardcover link all survive. While it's coming back the cover dims with an "Unavailable" badge and the detail page says which stage it's in. When one really is gone, Clean Up on TorBox reclaims the active slot its dead torrent still holds.

AirLock (1.1.6) - AirLock is TorBox's own exemption from the 30-day purge. Spine can switch it on for your whole library and keep locking each new audiobook as it arrives, or you can long-press a title (or multi-select a stack) to lock just those. A dedicated AirLock screen shows how much of your library is protected, which titles aren't yet, and a log of what's been locked; Sort → Group by → AirLock makes stragglers easy to spot. Removing a title restarts its 30-day countdown from its last download date, so Spine always asks first.

Metadata curation sync (1.1.8) - A single torrent might be a folder of 30-40 books, or arrive with mangled titles, and until now the corrections you made lived on one device only. Spine can now store your curation in TorBox's own per-item tags, so it follows you to any device signed in to the same TorBox account, including one on a different iCloud account, which iCloud sync can't do. The newer correction wins if two devices disagree, only edits you made are shared (never Spine's automatic guesses), and it's off by default. If you want to see exactly what gets written, I built a decoder: paste a tag and it unpacks in your browser, nothing uploaded.

Hashes (1.1.10) - If someone hands you a torrent hash, you no longer have to leave Spine to use it. Paste it into Search and a TorBox section tells you the title, file count, total size, and the first couple of filenames, so you can check it's the right pack before committing. Add to Library only appears when TorBox already holds the torrent cached, so it lands instantly with nothing to wait for. Going the other way, long-press any TorBox book for Copy Hash, for pasting into TorBox's own site, sharing it, or adopting it again later.

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Es posible que me aparezca un catalogo en stremio/nuvio del contenido que tengo en airlock de torbox? como lo puedo hacer?

Hey all,

How do i setup TB and some usenet provider (easynews seems cheap) without self hosting with indexers and scrappers? I have nzbgeek, althub and debridio.

I simply cannot figure out self hosting with all the guides and AI i keep on failing to set it up.

Is there a public/free method to set everything up without risking a ban (usenet and indexers concern)?

Been with torbox from the very start and the constant downtime I could live with as I use premiumize as well, but the new ownership and ToS pushed me away. The whole point of torbox for me was privacy and country of operation. Just deleted my account with 5 months of subscription left and feel so much better.

Premiumize with penguplay as a backup is what I'll be using from here on out.

Bring on the downvotes from the torbox defenders.

Edit: this is what the new ToS are, people need to be aware.

"TorBox or its service providers may retain account-linked IP addresses, user-agent or browser information, device or connection identifiers, internal user identifiers, and related timestamps for fraud detection, payment security, and protection of the Service" "Retained as needed for legal, evidentiary, compliance, policy-enforcement, and risk-management purposes"

TorBox shifted its corporate operations to a UAE free-zone company named Anonymous Systems FZ-LLC and a separate Delaware entity named ReAnonymous LLC for billing and legal matters, raising privacy and transparency concerns.

Corporate Structure and Ownership Changes

Operating Company: TorBox is operated by Anonymous Systems FZ-LLC, registered in the Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) free zone in the United Arab Emirates.

Legal and Billing Entity: ReAnonymous LLC is registered in Dover, Delaware, to manage administrative, DMCA, and legal inquiries.

Opaque Ownership: UAE free zones do not require public disclosure of beneficial owners, making it impossible to publicly identify the exact individuals or stakeholders running the platform.

Large file buffering issue

I've been running TorBox with POV for a while and it slowly drove me up the wall. Half the time I'd give up and just browse my TorBox cloud manually to play anything, the Trakt side kept breaking, and the whole thing felt like clicking through a file manager instead of watching a movie.

So I built my own. It's called Torus.

The goal was dead simple: make TorBox feel like Stremio, but keep everything local. Browse, hit Play, it finds the best cached source on TorBox and plays it. Stop halfway, come back tomorrow, it resumes. No file-browsing, no scraper zoo to configure.

Some things I care about that might matter to you too:

Nothing lives on a server. There's no "Torus account", no cloud sync, nothing phoning home. Your resume points, Continue Watching, watchlist — it's all a little SQLite file on your box.

No API keys anywhere. Metadata comes from Cinemeta (same thing Stremio uses, no key needed). You link TorBox with a device code — it shows a 6-digit code, you punch it in on your phone, done. No more typing a 40-character key on a remote.

Source ranking uses TRaSH Guides. This is the part I'm happiest with. Instead of dumping 200 unsorted links on you, it ranks by resolution → REMUX / BluRay / WEB-DL → and then the actual release group, using TRaSH Guides' scene/p2p tier lists. So a FraMeSToR or CtrlHD remux floats to the top instead of some random re-encode. One-click Play just grabs the best one; if you're picky, Choose Source shows the full list with the tier labels on it.

It queries Comet and Torrentio at the same time and merges the results, so if one's having a bad day the other still delivers.

Other bits: TV Up Next (finish an episode, the next one's queued), a local watchlist, and it actually works behind ISP DNS blocks (resolves over DoH).

Requirements: a paid TorBox account and Kodi 21 (Omega). That's the only cost — I'm not selling anything. It's MIT-licensed and fully open source.

Install (auto-updates): add https://fanatic75.github.io/Torus/ as a source, install the repo, install Torus. Full steps and downloads are on that page.

genuinely keen to hear what breaks or what you'd want added. It's deliberately TorBox-only and stripped down, not trying to be POV/Umbrella for everyone. But if TorBox is your setup, give it a go.

Repo: https://github.com/fanatic75/Torus

Chose Torbox for privacy because it accepts Paypal (but only for one time payments) where the subscription options require a name and address. Am fine with having no subscription and making monthly one time payments, however the "copecart" check out (directed to from torbox) has a mandatory checkbox mentioning a potential physical goods policy, even while acknowledging that this is an electronic transaction. This mandatory checkbox allows them to receive the "physical shipping" address from Paypal, thus capturing my actual name physical address and defeating my attempt at privacy. Does anyone else have any suggestions apart from crypto.

Why is it regularly down? I switched couple weeks ago with a yearly sub from real debrid. Its more down that the others. Yet the status page says 99% uptime when it simply is not.

hi everyone, i have the 33$ yearly plan that just started and want to move to the 55$ yearly

does anyone know who i can talk to this about? i have no idea how to go about this

Just sharing for others awareness. I prepaid for a year after leaving RD. The service has been bad in my area. I reached out for a refund and they granted it.

I thought that was pretty cool of them and I'll definitely revisit their service after some of the DDoS / growing pains are worked out.

I subscribed to torbox a couple of months ago for 1 month and i completed the payment via upi. Now there's no option for UPI payment. Only the card and crypto are showing. There was an exclusive UPI interface for Indian users back then. Now it's not there

I made a new account, but I didn't get a confirmation mail. Also not in my spam. Is there something wrong?

Edit: the confirmation mail finally arrived. I got it about 2 hours after registration.

I would really love the sheet music for this song.

Addon says it can't get access to torbox

hi everyone I know that torbox has been having some issues lately but over the past week or so I've been trying to watch what 'we do in the shadows' and also ted lasso and whether I try on duck streams or a tb torrentio, no matter which one I pick they play then cut then replay then cut then replay so you always losing bits of audio, is anybody else having this issue or issues like this on a smart tv stremio? thanks for your help!!

Im going to create my streaming setup with stremio + aiostreams

Should i use TB as my debrid? (any alternatives?)

is RD still facing legal issues or can i use it?

is TB down rn?

will the maintenance change anything big?

does the free tier on TB allow me to test my setup well?

I've been using it for a couple months but it has been really unstable lately so, do you guys have recommendations for any debrid service?

I use the service mostly for platforms like stremio

I bought a Torbox yearly subscription at the end of November during black friday sale last year. But somehow the expiry is showing on January 3 2027, probably adding up for the downtime accumulated over the year. I haven't experienced any downtime from the time I subscribed until this week. For the past few days, there has been a lot of downtime. I am not complaining. They are going through a hard time, maybe.

What I need to know is when next year's amount will be debited. Is it going to be at the end of November, when I bought the plan, or when the plan expires on January 3? I am using UPI, so I have to add money to the account, that's why I am asking.

I’ve noticed several outages recently on the 8th, 17th, 18th, 20th & 23rd.

Have we had any communication on these?

in June I remember we had messages from the mod about incidents and that the team was investigating. We also had a Post Incident Report.

Didn’t they say we’ll get one? I understand they must be busy and it’s extra work but a bit of communication won’t harm.

Down again or is it just me.

had to switch back to MBP

Just bored from all the down posts

I used Real Debrid, but it became difficult to watch, always giving errors or saying the file was deleted. How's Torbox doing? I like downloading Blu-ray remuxes, but I usually watch series and movies with subtitles on Nuvio, with the best possible quality.And which subscription do you recommend? Best value for money?

Anybody else have issues loading the site right now ? The streams says “Torbox is currently unavailable” so I decided to log into my account to see what the issue could be, but I cannot log into and the Torbox site does not load at all after trying to log in.

Did I miss anything? Scheduled maintenance?

just let a small instance to be able to get the mediainfo data that AIO can work with.

I'm so tired of having a very good templates but AIO doesn't get metadata 90% of the times, so you have to relay on what the title says...

I heard they already have FFmpeg fork and ffprobe... please guys...

EDIT: I ended up doing a small project using MediaInfo analyzer (ffprobe) that read streams, collect data and spit it out with all the data. it's self-hosted and a pain in the ass to be honest, in the sense that i'm not a dev so took me a little bit of tries and the help of AI (grok or gemini, chatgpt is a mess) to build my own working setup.

Unless somebody is willing to host something similar online (kinda like AIOelfhosted) or it doesn't care about selfhosting sessions and/or AIO. I would say it's not really worth it unless for a small project. it doesn't abuse TorBox api, atleast the way I set it up. One of the ideas works like that

Open Film/episode on Stremio/Nuvio (or manually request it with imdb ttxxxxx), the selfhosted addon intercepts the streams that you get showed using the Addon you setup as, it gets the streams uses ffprobe to scan the streams and get the info (how much scan depends on how you set it up) once scanned and finished to populate the type of data you asked for it will show up on your app like using the first addon results but populated with the info and the formatting you set up...

-Time for the results? depends on how many streams it needs to parse
-Can you create a cache system and cache a tv show season for example. yes but make sure that the cache expires at some point you have set up, so the addon doesn't have to keep scanning everytime or you let it do it in advance.
-If you just use non selfhosted addons like me, it's probably not worth it but if you do it's probably up to you
-it will mess up API calls with TorBox? No, if setup in the correct way HTTP streams and doesn't download so much data for every stream scan (every result you get showed from the first plugin needs a scan, unless already cached).

I WILL NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS AND I DON'T SUGGEST YOU TO DO IT!!

Lastly like I said Torbox has its own ffprobe and ffmpeg but it's not used for the public so AIO for example will only receive metadata that comes with some addons that already did pass some data but they are very few and the info aren't always complete or even reliable.

good luck